[aur-general] Unable to submit package

[Ionut Biru]

On 11/29/2009 11:38 AM, Gergely Imreh wrote:
> 2009/11/29 Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org>:
>> edogawaconan wrote:
>>>
>>> After 'cleaning up' a package I'm maintaining (nginx-unstable), and
>>> verifying it can be built and works fine, AUR rejected the package.
>>> Reverting to old version (with updated version) works fine.
>>>
>>> error message:
>>> "Missing build function in PKGBUILD."
>>>
>>> package:
>>> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18036
>>>
>>> Problematic version attached.
>>
>> Attachments do not work on this list, but the error message is quite clear.
>>   Does your PKGBUILD have a build() function?
>
> The error message is simple, but the meaning is not that
> straightforward: AUR can miss the build function when makepkg has no
> problem, e.g. in case of a bug in bash-type variable replacements....
> I'm not saying that it is the case for this PKGBUILD, but wouldn't be
> the first bug like this, as much as I remember.
>
> Do .gz attachments work on this list? If they do, please attach the
> compressed faulty PKGBUILD.
>
> Cheers,
>      Greg

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